The separation

10-minute animated film using puppets to tell story of separated conjoined brothers who yearn all their lives to be physically reunited, and eventually act upon their desire – with tragic consequences. The project was a collaboration between Bringas, as producer, and Morgan, as director and has won several festival prizes. The Separation is a short animation film exploring the myth of the ‘ideal self’, the self made ‘whole’ through the intervention of

technology. Its aesthetic emerged from an imperative to shock and trigger feelings of discomfort and ambivalence in the

audience with regards to the realism of the puppets and their processing through machinery and body horror.

Bringas (producer) and Morgan (director) worked together on designing and making the puppets, whose surface texture was a

major vehicle for expressing character and metaphor: the translucent quality of the flesh was achieved through mixing silicon

and rubber materials. The sexual aesthetics were further refined through their collaboration with the production designer and